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Friday, November 14, 2014

Turkey and Sweet Potato Soup Recipe with Black Beans and Lime is a great use for leftover turkey!

(For Friday Flashbacks I feature favorite recipes from the past that have been my personal favorites. It won't be long before you have some leftover turkey, and when you do this deliciously healthy Leftover Turkey and Sweet Potato Soup Recipe with Black Beans and Lime is a lovely way to use it.)

One of my favorite traditions for the day after Thanksgiving is taking the turkey carcass, putting it in a big roasting pan with lots of water, onions, carrots, celery, and a bit of Penzeys Turkey Soup Base, and fill up the house with the smell of turkey stock. This soup recipe with turkey, black beans, and lime is one of my favorite soups to make with leftover turkey, and I'm indulging my love of sweet potatoesin soup here as well. This recipe is pretty flexible, but don't leave out the touch of fresh lime juice added at the very end. Lime and sweet potatoes, that's what makes this soup special.

You can make the soup using chicken and even chicken broth from a can, but I highly recommend making turkey stock if you have a carcass left from the big holiday meal. Here are instructions for How to Make Turkey Stock, and I promise you'll thank me when the wonderful smell of this stock fills your house on the day after thanksgiving.

Start the soup by cooking the onions and celery a few minutes in the bottom of the soup pot. Then add the diced sweet potatoes, oregano, cumin, chile powder, sage, and turkey stock and simmer about 40 minutes. Add black beans and liquid to the mix and simmer about 15 minutes more; then add the diced turkey and green chiles and simmer another 15 minutes. Stir in the lime juice, simmer a few minutes more, and serve hot. Add chopped fresh cilantro if you wish. This is good with cheese and sour cream to sprinkle on at the table.

And just for fun, here's the original photo of this soup from 2007, which I actually still like quite a bit! When I made this recently to take the new photos, I reduced the cooking times a little, so now the soup is a bit quicker to get on the table; enjoy!

Sweet potatoes and black beans are both considered to be "good carbs" for the South Beach Diet, meaning they are digested slowly. This soup would be suitable for phase 2 or 3 on South Beach. It's probably too high in carbs for other types of low-carb eating plans.

Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.

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Love the way the soup reads, I'm trying to get everyone to agree for a turkey for Xmas, if we have one, I'll do your soup. Hope your Thanksgiving is a happy one with your family, I know it will be tasty.

I used your recipe for Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar as my potluck dish to take to my brother's for Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't have the parmesan cheese or pine nuts, but even so, it was a delicious accompaniment to all the other tasty dishes at the dinner.

Trust you're have a grand time with everyone!I really love the look of this soup. I know the sweet potato and the turkey are major components but it seems to me the two key is the lime and the anaheim!I've a post up now for my secret dressing/stuffing ingredient.

I love sweet potatoes and had left over turkey breast and wanted to make a soup. I Google sweet potato turkey soup and yours was the first search response. When I saw it included black beans and lime I knew I had to try it and it was amazing. I will definitely keep this as one of my favorites.

Made this last night... used store bought chicken stock though. It is soooo yummy. My hubby even loved it; and he was very skeptical of sweet potatoes since he's not a fan. I'll def make this again. I found the recipe just be searching for "leftover turkey soup" on Google.

Just made this today and it was absolutely 'delumptious' and I will not only make this again, but I'll share the link with others. Since I'm living in NM, this is very similar to a 'tortilla soup' that's offered on many restaurant menus and now I know I can make it even better. Topping with shredded cheese, crushed tortilla chips and a dap of sour cream was the BEST! Thanks for sharing this great way to use the turkey carcass; I'll never toss it again! Happy Holidays from Albuquerque.

YES! Found you with Google (searched for turkey stock). I made this recipe tonight with Christmas' leftover turkey meat/carcass. It was so good. A huge hit. I made some tortilla chips and guacamole to go with it. Ate it with some Christmas bread. Thanks!

I made this soup tonight. It was great! My husband picked up my produce for me and the sweet potatoes definitely did not have the happy shade of orange like in your photo. I think it would make a big difference to have yams instead (at least colorwise). I cut down some of the simmer time since my guests came over earlier than I thought and it still turned out great. I boiled the soup for a bit and it became thick, like a stew. Yum! I also used your recipe for turkey stock from my leftover turkey. Thanks for the great recipes!

Jessica, what you see in my photo are orange sweet potatoes. Sometimes stores call them yams, but they are really sweet potatoes. (Don't get in an argument with your grocery store about this, but google it if you don't believe me.) Glad you liked it though!

Kalyn. This worked very well in my crock pot. I put everything but the lime & cilantro which I added just before serving. 4 cups of broth was perfect. I did it 5 hours on low. It worked perfectly with my work schedule. I will make this after christmas again. Thank you again for all the amazing recipes LM

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